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The Applied Materials Foundation at a glance

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The Applied Materials Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

78% of The Applied Materials Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

164
’17
204
’18
167
’19
194
’20
233
’21
58
’22
0
’23
0
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$51MFood & Nutrition$8.2MEducation$7.9MArts & Culture$5.2MHousing & Shelter$2.6MYouth Development$2.5MHuman Services$1.2MInternational$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+10 grants · $12M
$500,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$2,500,000
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$1,706,970
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,544,107
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,466,500
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,400,000
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$733,500
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$716,425
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$700,000
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$501,977
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK INC$500,000
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$247,082
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$203,000
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$194,706
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$191,220
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$157,994
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $56k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $31k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR INSPIRATION & RECOGNITION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN TEXAS: $130k → 6%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $56k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $750k → 8%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $20k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR INSPIRATION & RECOGNITION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN TEXAS: $60k → 6%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $56k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250k → 8%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $15k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN TEXAS: $40k → 6%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PARTNERSHIPS IN EQUITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $56k → 9%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60k → 8%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $15k → 14%ADELANTE MUJERES: $25k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $25k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $20k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $25k → 10%ACTION INC: $25k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $20k → 10%Action Inc: $20k → 10%VALLEY VERDE: $15k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $20k → 10%MAMA D 2ND CHANCE: $15k → 8%Valley Verde: $15k → 8%VALLEY VERDE: $15k → 8%VALLEY VERDE: $15k → 8%Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County: $50k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $25k → 8%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $50k → 8%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $50k → 8%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%Ending Commmunity Homelessness Coalition Inc: $25k → 10%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $50k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $50k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $50k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $50k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $50k → 8%Sacred Heart Community Service: $25k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60k → 8%Sunnyvale Community Services: $60k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 38% of The Applied Materials Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Applied Materials Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 273 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

273 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 271 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

273
167

Total granted

$32M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

86%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +138%
  • SC
    SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +128%
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • NT
    NEW TEACHER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $131k · revenue -51%
  • TI
    TRUECHILD INC
    one grant, 2018 · $105k · revenue -98%
  • NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -29%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
4
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
5
Epacenter

Epacenter's mission is to increase opportunities for youth to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.

Arts & Culture
6
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…

Philanthropy
9
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

—
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The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
11
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Foundation At Shield Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

383 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 383 of the 449 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
90
Early backer (in before they grew)
373/383
Grantees still filing
271/383
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $20,545,200 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUNDSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $19,859,714 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community FoundationUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $9,865,102 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE+8 more: $1,341,104 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $5,841,805 · Food & NutritionSECOND HAR…Central Texas Food Bank Inc: $1,111,903 · Food & NutritionCentral Te…FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $277,250 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $277,532 · Food & NutritionFranklin-McKinley School District: $1,250,000 · OtherFranklin-McKinl…OAK GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $750,000 · OtherOAK GROVE SCHOO…CITY YEAR INC: $500,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $625,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OFAN…+84 more: $8,027,778 · Other+84 moreSILICON VALLEY CREATES: $832,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP: $285,000 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY SAN JOSE: $250,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $170,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER: $145,000 · Arts & Culture+27 more: $1,597,700 · Arts & CultureSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,300,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $300,000 · Human ServicesGENAUSTIN: $295,000 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $285,000 · Human ServicesFoundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc: $230,000 · Human ServicesNational Alliance for Partnerships In Equity Education Foundation Inc: $223,600 · Human ServicesYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $150,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $120,000 · Human Services+10 more: $610,700 · Human ServicesBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $575,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $387,500 · EducationACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $375,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH: $375,000 · EducationTechbridge Girls: $325,000 · EducationE3 ALLIANCE: $204,500 · EducationTHE MANOR SCHOOLHOUSE FOUNDATION: $193,760 · EducationNEW TEACHER CENTER: $131,000 · EducationCon Mi MADRE: $115,000 · Education+12 more: $718,863 · EducationAlliance for Girls: $345,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATINITAS INC: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $69,500 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCODE GIRLS UNITED: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLFORWARD: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARTING ARTS INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCODE2COLLEGE: $50,000 · Youth Development+6 more: $201,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$51,611,120Food & Nutrition$7,508,490Other$11,152,778Arts & Culture$3,930,200Human Services$3,514,300Education$3,400,623Youth Development$1,460,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $20,545,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $19,859,714 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $9,865,102 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $5,841,805 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,300,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $1,111,903 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CREATES: $832,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $625,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $575,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: $495,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $387,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $375,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $375,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN: $371,104 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAlliance for Girls: $345,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $325,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGENAUSTIN: $295,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $290,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP: $285,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $285,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $277,250 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $275,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CAMPAIGN FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $260,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetPeople Acting in Community Together: $250,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCinequest Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSYMPHONY SAN JOSE: $250,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetOPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $250,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFoundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc: $230,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNational Alliance for Partnerships In Equity Education Foundation Inc: $223,600 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetGIRLSTART: $220,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $204,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $203,971 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $200,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetVEGGIELUTION: $200,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE MANOR SCHOOLHOUSE FOUNDATION: $193,760 over 4y, 46% of budgetLATINITAS INC: $175,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $170,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $160,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSV HOME: $151,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetGuadalupe River Park Conservancy: $150,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS: $150,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSan Jose Jazz: $148,600 over 6y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY CREATES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Girls ↗
  • Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GENAUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY CAMPAIGN FOR LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds People Acting in Community Together ↗
  • Who funds Cinequest Inc ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY SAN JOSE ↗
  • Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc ↗
  • Who funds National Alliance for Partnerships In Equity Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
  • Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The David and Lucile …Leo M Shortino Family…Austin Community Foun…St David's FoundationSilicon Valley CreatesLos Altos Mountain Vi…United Way for Greate…The Sobrato Family Fo…The Webber Family Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Better Business BureauRotary Club of San Jo…
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA83.1× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · Silicon Valley Creates · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Better Business Bureau · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Applied Materials Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Applied Materials Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Pathways for Childreninc: 86% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of Oregon Inc: 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: 16% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Plein Air Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Action Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Art Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
94report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Applied Materials Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Applied Materials Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 449 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home